John Ashbery
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927, Rochester, United States; died 2017), was a Poet from the United States of America. Ashbery is best remembered for Where Shall I Wander, The Tennis Court Oath and Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashbery's honours include Bollingen Prize, Fulbright Scholarship and National Book Award.
John Ashbery’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with John
John Ashbery’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
John ranked 2nd among boys and 318th among girls in 1927, the year of this birth, with 55,949 American boys and 440 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Gold · Scarlet
The record
What sets John apart
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929) and Harry Kane (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of John is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with John and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. John creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: John is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. John is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means John channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from John's birth date. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to John Ashbery
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rochester on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Rochester that night
Computed for 43.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Rochester at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.3° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 43.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Rochester at all: they sit past the −46.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Air planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
John Ashbery's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
John Ashbery was born on July 28, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
John Ashbery's birth date, July 28, 1927, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Ashbery's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
- John Ashbery combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrineJupiter0.0° to 6.7° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMoontrineUranus0.0° to 6.9° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 6.8° orb
John’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.2° orb
stableVenussextilePluto0.4° to 1.0° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter0.6° to 1.6° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn0.7° to 1.3° orb
stableSuntrineUranus0.8° to 1.8° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.2° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.4° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 6°01′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°11′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 11°27′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°32′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.4°
- Chiron square Sun 1.5°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.6°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Grand trine · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.4°
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John’s cards
Computed from July 28, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q29418 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Ashbery at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about John Ashbery’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Ashbery?
- John Ashbery was a Leo: born July 28, 1927, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was John Ashbery's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1927 birth.
- What was John Ashbery's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Ashbery's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Ashbery's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Ashbery's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
